In the final decades of the 19th century, modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural commentators, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. Far from being a social problem, the free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as an agent of community-building and social citizenship. Through major social critics, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure was theorized in terms of the good society. These writers remained influential in...
In the final decades of the 19th century, modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural commentato...
